“The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal, and professional.”

+Dial. 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.
Educ. R. 34: 208. S. ’07. 80w.

“Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting chapters of American educational history.”

+Lit. D. 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.

“Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”

+Nation. 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 810w.

“To those interested in educational matters his book would have been of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the personal note.”

+ −N. Y. Times. 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 390w.

“It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.